Oscar Schmidt go one louder with the OU7. It looks cool, but if they’re going to keep jacking up the price they’ll have to switch to solid ukes pretty soon.

A ‘deluxe’ and ‘limited edition’ Ohana TK-70CG. Sexy cutaway, but not sure about the pink tuners (and I usually love pink).

One uke that might want to think about adding a cutaway is this Mike Chock Mango ukulele. What’s the point of 23 frets if you can only reach 12 of them? But I do quite like the pear shape.

Every time a vintage Martin 5K crops up on eBay I do a quick ‘pros and cons’ list of selling one of the kids. And in this case the uke has a lovely battered case – making the list dangerously close to even.

We’ve been total idiots. Practicing when all we had to do was learn to play the ukulele subliminally.

I have owned my OU7T for almost a year now and It still never fails to amaze me with its sound. . . The spalted mango is asthetically beautiful but what really drew me to this instrument is the lightness of it and it has a great voice. . . It really speaks. . . Plus. . . the action of the neck and fingerboard for me is second to none. I like the extra bit of width that Oscar Schmidt puts on its fingerboards. . . Being a guitar player for over 50 years, that feature is very attractive to me. . . The action is smooth. . . I know its laminate but honestly I’ve played many solid wood ukes that dont have nearly the voice that this instrument has. . .